Associations
between biological markers of prenatal stress and infant negative emotionality are specific to sex.
Not exact matches
Future trials that dynamically measure additional
biological information, such as cortisol levels (another
marker of stress) and blood pressure, are now warranted to further advance our understanding of the relationship
between stress and blighted urban environments.»
They used a newer
biological marker of hormonal action in utero: anogenital distance at birth, which is the distance
between the anus and the genitals.
This led the team to hypothesize that a large fraction of their newly disovered epigenetic
markers of ethnicity likely reflect
biological signatures of environmental, social, or cultural differences
between ethnic subgroups.
The new research also looked at hCG in relation to a
biological marker called anogenital distance, which is the distance
between the anus and genitals.
For a study published in the journal
Biological Psychiatry, Ole Andreassen and colleagues compared genetic information from Neanderthals and modern humans and found an association
between markers of human evolution and genetic risk for schizophrenia.
Asthma symptoms and cotinine (
biological nicotine
marker present in urine) were also compared
between children residing in households without and with air cleaners.